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Leavitt D, Alanazi FI, Al-Ozzi TM, Cohn M, Hodaie M, Kalia SK, Lozano AM, Milosevic L, Hutchison WD. Auditory oddball responses in the human subthalamic nucleus and substantia nigra pars reticulata. Neurobiol Dis 2024; 195:106490. [PMID: 38561111 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2024.106490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2024] [Revised: 03/24/2024] [Accepted: 03/29/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024] Open
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The auditory oddball is a mainstay in research on attention, novelty, and sensory prediction. How this task engages subcortical structures like the subthalamic nucleus and substantia nigra pars reticulata is unclear. We administered an auditory OB task while recording single unit activity (35 units) and local field potentials (57 recordings) from the subthalamic nucleus and substantia nigra pars reticulata of 30 patients with Parkinson's disease undergoing deep brain stimulation surgery. We found tone modulated and oddball modulated units in both regions. Population activity differentiated oddball from standard trials from 200 ms to 1000 ms after the tone in both regions. In the substantia nigra, beta band activity in the local field potential was decreased following oddball tones. The oddball related activity we observe may underlie attention, sensory prediction, or surprise-induced motor suppression.
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- Dallas Leavitt
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada; University of Toronto - Max Planck Centre for Neural Science and Technology, University of Toronto, Canada; Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada; Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Canada
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- Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada; Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Canada
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- Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada; Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada; Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital - University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada; Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada; Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital - University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada; Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada; Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital - University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada; University of Toronto - Max Planck Centre for Neural Science and Technology, University of Toronto, Canada; Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada; Center for Advancing Neurotechnological Innovation to Application (CRANIA), Toronto, Canada; KITE Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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- Krembil Brain Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada; Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Canada; Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada; Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital - University Health Network, Toronto, Canada.
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Al Tannir R, Pautrat A, Baufreton J, Overton PG, Coizet V. The Subthalamic Nucleus: A Hub for Sensory Control via Short Three- Lateral Loop Connections with the Brainstem? Curr Neuropharmacol 2023; 21:22-30. [PMID: 35850655 PMCID: PMC10193764 DOI: 10.2174/1570159x20666220718113548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2022] [Revised: 04/30/2022] [Accepted: 05/05/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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The subthalamic nucleus (STN) is classically subdivided into sensori-motor, associative and limbic regions, which is consistent with the involvement of this structure in not only motor control, but also in cognitive and emotional tasks. However, the function of the sensory inputs to the STN's sensori-motor territory is comparatively less well explored, although sensory responses have been reported in this structure. There is still a paucity of information regarding the characteristics of that subdivision and its potential functional role in basal ganglia processing and more widely in associated networks. In this perspective paper, we summarize the type of sensory stimuli that have been reported to activate the STN, and describe the complex sensory properties of the STN and its anatomical link to a sensory network involving the brainstem, characterized in our recent work. Analyzing the sensory input to the STN led us to suggest the existence of previously unreported threelateral subcortical loops between the basal ganglia and the brainstem which do not involve the cortex. Anatomically, these loops closely link the STN, the substantia nigra pars reticulata and various structures from the brainstem such as the superior colliculus and the parabrachial nucleus. We also discuss the potential role of the STN in the control of sensory activity in the brainstem and its possible contribution to favoring sensory habituation or sensitization over brainstem structures to optimize the best selection of action at a given time.
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- Racha Al Tannir
- Grenoble Institut Neurosciences, University Grenoble Alpes, Inserm, U1216, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Grenoble Institut Neurosciences, University Grenoble Alpes, Inserm, U1216, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, IMN, UMR 5293, Université de Bordeaux, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
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- Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience, Bâtiment E.J. Safra - Chemin Fortuné Ferrini - 38700 La Tronche, France
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- Grenoble Institut Neurosciences, University Grenoble Alpes, Inserm, U1216, 38000 Grenoble, France
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De Groote E, Bockstael A, Botteldooren D, Santens P, De Letter M. Evaluation of multi-feature auditory deviance detection in Parkinson's disease: a mismatch negativity study. J Neural Transm (Vienna) 2021; 128:645-657. [PMID: 33895941 DOI: 10.1007/s00702-021-02341-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2021] [Accepted: 04/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Behavioral studies on auditory deviance detection in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) have reported contradictory results. The primary aim of this study was to investigate auditory deviance detection of multiple auditory features in patients with PD by means of objective and reliable electroencephalographic (EEG) measurements. Twelve patients with early-stage PD and twelve age- and gender-matched healthy controls (HCs) were included in this study. Patients with PD participated without their regular dopaminergic medication. All subjects underwent an audiometric screening and performed a passive multi-feature mismatch negativity (MMN) paradigm. Repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) demonstrated no significant differences between patients with PD and HCs regarding MMN mean amplitude and latency for frequency, duration and gap deviants. Nevertheless, a trend towards increased MMN mean amplitude and latency was found in response to intensity deviants in patients with PD compared to HCs. Increased intensity MMN amplitude may indicate that more neural resources are allocated to the processing of intensity deviances in patients with PD compared to HCs. The interpretation of this intensity-specific MMN alteration is further discussed in the context of a compensatory mechanism for auditory intensity processing and involuntary attention switching in PD.
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- Evelien De Groote
- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, C. Heymanslaan 10, 9000, Ghent, Belgium.
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- Department of Information Technology, WAVES Research Group, Ghent University, Technologiepark Zwijnaarde 126, 9052, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Information Technology, WAVES Research Group, Ghent University, Technologiepark Zwijnaarde 126, 9052, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Neurology, Ghent University Hospital, C. Heymanslaan 10, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, C. Heymanslaan 10, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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De Letter M, Bruggeman A, De Keyser K, Van Mierlo P, Buysse H, Van Roost D, Santens P. Subthalamic nucleus activity in the processing of body and mental action verbs in people with Parkinson's disease. Brain Lang 2020; 202:104738. [PMID: 31981951 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2019.104738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2019] [Revised: 10/13/2019] [Accepted: 12/18/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Local field potentials evoked by body action and mental action verbs were recorded in the subthalamic nucleus (STN) of 18 patients with Parkinson's disease through the electrodes implanted for deep brain stimulation. Compared with the medication on-condition, the medication off-condition showed a difference in activity in the early time segments, mainly in the right STN, with larger amplitudes for body action verbs. In the on-condition a similar pattern was detected in the left STN. These patterns of early differences in activity evoked by different types of verbs might indicate the potential of the STN to rapidly detect relevant behavioural clues in verbal content and to integrate these in subsequent cortico-subcortical interactions. In addition, these lateralizations allow speculations about shifts in processing activity correlating with dopaminergic denervation. Whether this detection relies on phonological, semantic or grammatical clues remains an open question.
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- M De Letter
- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Neurology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Medical Image and Signal Processing Group, Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Medical Informatics & Statistics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Neurology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
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Carbajal GV, Malmierca MS. The Neuronal Basis of Predictive Coding Along the Auditory Pathway: From the Subcortical Roots to Cortical Deviance Detection. Trends Hear 2019; 22:2331216518784822. [PMID: 30022729 PMCID: PMC6053868 DOI: 10.1177/2331216518784822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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In this review, we attempt to integrate the empirical evidence regarding stimulus-specific adaptation (SSA) and mismatch negativity (MMN) under a predictive coding perspective (also known as Bayesian or hierarchical-inference model). We propose a renewed methodology for SSA study, which enables a further decomposition of deviance detection into repetition suppression and prediction error, thanks to the use of two controls previously introduced in MMN research: the many-standards and the cascade sequences. Focusing on data obtained with cellular recordings, we explain how deviance detection and prediction error are generated throughout hierarchical levels of processing, following two vectors of increasing computational complexity and abstraction along the auditory neuraxis: from subcortical toward cortical stations and from lemniscal toward nonlemniscal divisions. Then, we delve into the particular characteristics and contributions of subcortical and cortical structures to this generative mechanism of hierarchical inference, analyzing what is known about the role of neuromodulation and local microcircuitry in the emergence of mismatch signals. Finally, we describe how SSA and MMN are occurring at similar time frame and cortical locations, and both are affected by the manipulation of N-methyl- D-aspartate receptors. We conclude that there is enough empirical evidence to consider SSA and MMN, respectively, as the microscopic and macroscopic manifestations of the same physiological mechanism of deviance detection in the auditory cortex. Hence, the development of a common theoretical framework for SSA and MMN is all the more recommendable for future studies. In this regard, we suggest a shared nomenclature based on the predictive coding interpretation of deviance detection.
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- Guillermo V Carbajal
- 1 Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory (Lab 1), Institute of Neuroscience of Castile and León, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.,2 Salamanca Institute for Biomedical Research, Spain
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- 1 Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory (Lab 1), Institute of Neuroscience of Castile and León, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.,2 Salamanca Institute for Biomedical Research, Spain.,3 Department of Cell Biology and Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Salamanca, Spain
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